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Within the third component, actions by National
Environmental Education programmeme (Programa
Nacional de Educação Ambiental – PRONEA), where biodiversity
is not treated in a specific manner, are worthy of
mention. Within the fourth component, important pieces
of legislation are as follows: those related to organic
production and consumption systems; bio-security,
biological control agents registration, control, cultivated
areas protection and, finally, the environmental crimes law.
The United Nations Summit convention on climate change
went into effect as of March 1994, in order of “to reach, as
per the pertaining dispositions from this Summit, the
stabilisation of greenhouse effect gases concentration in
the atmosphere, on a level that thwarts dangerous anthropic
interference in the climatic system” It establishes that its
parties shall:
a) Prepare, periodically update, issue anthropic
emissions national inventories;
b) Design, implement, publish and regularly update
national programmes to mitigate climatic change;
c) Promote and co-operate for the development, use and
spreading, of technologies, including transference,
practices and processes that help control, reduce or
prevent greenhouse effect gases anthropic emissions;
d) Promote self-sustained management, as well as
promote and cooperate in the conservation and
strengthening, as each case requires, of disposal
facilities and reservoirs for all greenhouse effect gases.
As far as Brazil’s response to the Climate Summit goes, the
following actions should be noted:
a) Elaboration of the national greenhouse effect gases
emissions inventory;
b) Creation of the Inter-ministry Global Climate Changes
Commission, which is responsible for negotiating with
the Summit’s representatives. Inception of the Climatic
Changes Executive programme, which has supporting
greenhouse effect related gases emissions studies as
its goal;
c) Eight actions from Move Foward, Brazil programmeme
(Programa Avança Brasil) that target inventory studies,
research models, vulnerability and adaptation to the
changes’ impacts, mitigation plans, emissions
reducing technologies development and studies for
creating clean development mechanisms;
d) The fact that non-governmental institutions were
invited to discuss climatic changes and, finally, the
dissemination of information on climate changes.
Brazil joined the Montreal Protocol officially in 1990. Then,
the Brazilian programmeme for the Elimination of Ozone
Layer Degrading Substances Production and Consumption
– PBCO was created, in which the gradual elimination of
such substances in Brazil was determined. This
programmeme had its rules outlined in 1995, forbidding
the use of any such substances as of 2001. It should be
noted that ever since 1998, the Brazilian industry has been
using propane and butane gases, which are petrol derived,
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